Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-11
RAILROAD TO PL.CERyILLE.
The County Seat of FL Dorado 10 be Con-
nected with Sacramento by Rail.

The County Seat of FL Dorado 10 be Con-
nected with Sacramento by Rail.
For many years the citizens of Placer
vile have been praying for the completion
of the railroad from Shingle Springs, its
present terminus, to that city. At last
their hopes seem about TO be realized, and
the beautiful city nestled among the
hills" in the center of one of the finest
agricultural sections in the State, will,
within few months, almost beyond per-
adventure of doubt, be connected by rail
with the Capital City. The distance from
Single Springs to Placerville is twelve
miles, the distance from Sacramento to
Placerville by rail about fifty. On Monday
articles of incorporation of the Single
Springs and Placerville Railroad Company
were filed in the office of the County Clerk
at San Francisco. The incorporates and
Directors are Leland Stanford, Q. F.
Croker. Timothy Hopkins, Charles E.
Green and w. E. Brown. The capital stock
of the company is $500,0O0 divided into
5000 shares. OF this 100 shares have been
subscribed, the first three Directors named
taking thirty shares EACH and the last two
fifteen shares apiece.
Last evening special train left this CITY
for Single Springs, having Superintendent
Wright and railroad engineers, who will
to-day ride over the proposed routes with a
view of selecting the one best suited.
This will open up an immense fruit belt in
every way equal to that in the neighbor-
hood of Newcastle, and Placerville will be-
come famous as health and pleasure re-
sort. If there are no bitches" the road
will in all probability be finished in time
to move this years fruit crop. Lumber can
be fiumed into Placerville from the finest
forest of timber that anywhere skirts the
Western slope of the Sierras, and that town
is destined to become the most important
mountain town in the State. Her resources
are varied, her people enterprising her
climate superb, her educational facilities
unsurpassed. Her quartz and drift
mines are yet in their infancy,
her water supply inexhaustible, and
she must, from the MANY and
peculiar advantages she enjoys, become at
no distant day an important manufacturing
center. Those who visit Placerville once
are anxious to call again; those who have
located there would not live anywhere else.
Her many attractions are almost unknown
outside of the borders of the county; her
inducements to immigrants are unequaled
by any other section on the coast. Land
is cheap, well-watered, fertile, and crops
tnat can be grown anywhere else upon the
coast can be produced here in abundance,
while her fruits are unequaled. During
the past year the population of Ell Dorado
county has been steadily increasing. There
has been healthy immigration of thrifty
and well-to-do people, who have secured
for themselves homes that in short time
will double and treble in value. The
completion of this road will no doubt tend
to accelerate the boom in real estate, and
the Placerville and Sacramento Railroad
will become one of the best contributing
short lines connecting with the Cap
ital CITY,